
Description
You are a chrome beetle, hurtling unstoppably into a void, zooming through hellscapes on rails at grimace-inducing speed. A screaming, flaming skull hovers in the middle distance, sending debris down the track to end you. If that description reads like a nightmare, know that Thumper looks and sounds like one, too. Most games have you fighting your way out of danger, but Thumper fires you headlong into the abyss. It gave me heartburn, but in a good way.
Thumper is a rhythm game with deceptively simple one-button controls, but one in which the slightest lapse will finish you immediately. Fail to turn, jump, change rails or smash through barriers in time with the grim industrial soundtrack and death is immediate. There are ways to wring a higher score out of each section with perfect timing, but first time through, your only concern will be survival. Thumpers nine long, relentless levels are split into short checkpointed sections.
Developer: Drool
Publisher: Drool
Release Date: 10 Oct, 2016
Genre: Action, VR, Horror, Racing
System Requirements
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GTX 480 / AMD Radeon 7870
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 1400 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel i5-6400 (required for VR)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 (required for VR)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1400 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible
- Additional Notes: 8 GB RAM and DirectX 11 required for VR mode.